PL Question, does anyone know....

[lakefor94]

About to come off time away mode with ~900 listings. Been on time away for 3 weeks.

1) is it best to allow listings to re-index with PL turned off and then start PL the next day after all have re-indexed? I do 2%.

2) add the PL at 2% and then come off time away and let them re-index with PL already added?

3) other advantageous way to do this?

4) I am thinking way too deep into this endeavor.

[lakefor94]

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@tdrake wrote:

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@sapphire_studio wrote:

Yeah it's just interesting that I could raise the price by more money than the fees I am paying on raising the promoted listing % and have the experiment still work.  I guess some people really just want to buy whatever is at the top without doing any work price comparing.

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Yours may be the only "listing" the buyer saw. Promoted listings not only get you further up the search results food chain, but also gets you placement on other eBay pages as well as seen in ads on other, non-eBay, pages.  The more you pay, the more places you play...

I've been doing little experiments with PL off and on for some time now. One thing I've learned - at least for ME - is paying for 2% (formally 1%) is not worth it. If everyone, or most everyone, is promoting at 2% then it's not really promoting. It's staying even. If a search brings 200 results, and 100 of those are promoted at 2%, who gets the "top" slot?  Well, probably none of them. One would assume that the top slots would go to the 2.5% and up promotions.  YMMV and often does.

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Thanks to all who have contributed thus far to this thread.

I went ahead and ran a PL @2.5% for about 400 of my ~900 listings that are active at this time.

One thing I saw again right off the bat was that, if I am selling larger quantities of a certain widget that might be going for ~$5-$8 per widget and I am selling 100 of those widgets for $350, the $350 listing zooms right to the top.  FWIW

[tdrake]

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@lakefor94 wrote:

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@tdrake wrote:

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@sapphire_studio wrote:

Yeah it's just interesting that I could raise the price by more money than the fees I am paying on raising the promoted listing % and have the experiment still work.  I guess some people really just want to buy whatever is at the top without doing any work price comparing.

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Yours may be the only "listing" the buyer saw. Promoted listings not only get you further up the search results food chain, but also gets you placement on other eBay pages as well as seen in ads on other, non-eBay, pages.  The more you pay, the more places you play...

I've been doing little experiments with PL off and on for some time now. One thing I've learned - at least for ME - is paying for 2% (formally 1%) is not worth it. If everyone, or most everyone, is promoting at 2% then it's not really promoting. It's staying even. If a search brings 200 results, and 100 of those are promoted at 2%, who gets the "top" slot?  Well, probably none of them. One would assume that the top slots would go to the 2.5% and up promotions.  YMMV and often does.

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Thanks to all who have contributed thus far to this thread.

I went ahead and ran a PL @2.5% for about 400 of my ~900 listings that are active at this time.

One thing I saw again right off the bat was that, if I am selling larger quantities of a certain widget that might be going for ~$5-$8 per widget and I am selling 100 of those widgets for $350, the $350 listing zooms right to the top.  FWIW

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That is a good observation. One thing I do now and then... I go visit my mom 3 times per week. Before I go I run a search for one of the items I have listed, and note where mine ranks in the search. Then, at my mom's, who does NOT have an eBay account, and I go on eBay anon and run the exact same search, and note where my item falls in the results. Sometimes the difference in results is striking.